A blog about genealogy and thoughts about the various roots and branches of my family tree as well as the times in which my ancestors lived.Included are the West, White,and McFarland families.WARNING:DO NOT TAKE ALL OF MY FAMILY RECORDS AS GOSPEL. ALWAYS CONFIRM YOUR OWN RESEARCH!

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Monday, June 16, 2008

PHEW!

It's been one of those days. Ping didn't start this morning,which was probably for the best since I wasn't feeling too welland it's better to be here at home when I feel lousy than tobe stuck somewhere in a stalled out car. If Ping doesn't startup tomorrow I'll take the train into work and have the carrepaired next week when I'm on vacation.

This was on top of a near disaster, blog-wise. I had beenvisiting each entry for the Carnival of Genealogy andbookmarking them into a Blog Carnival folder. Around 6pmSunday night as I was writing up the final version of theintroductions, there was some sort of very brief power failure.The lights flickered and the computer shut down buteverything was back on immediately. The computer seemedok and I shut it off while I watched the Celtics-Lakers game.

When I turned it back on after the game ended, I went backto working on the CoG and found that not only were most ofmy bookmarks for genealogy gone, so was the "Blog Carnival"folder. Luckily I had saved all the email entries and hadn'tlost the intro, so I was able to finish it today. The 50th CoGis stored on Blogger and I tried setting a timer on the post.We'll see if I did it right come tomorrow night!

Putting together this CoG edition has given me a greaterappreciation of the hard work Jasia has put in it monthafter month!